[Capt. Lou]

How do u thinkI feel , I lobbied hard for the two hundred mile limit in the 70's !
We won got all the foreign fleet out of the mud hole etc, BUT what very few of us realized our own fleet would now be turned loose to finish the decimation of these stocks .
When this law was enacted there was virtually no limits on commercial fisheries.if u were a giant tuna fisherman in those days u witnessed as I have on many occasions literally miles at times of floaters. Whiting / ling by the thousands dead floating throughout the mud hole!
By catch dead ended up destroying a viable fishery , most local draggers , cause all the foreign fleet was now gone !